Mark McKinnon Quotes
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I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.
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God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
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Born to a tribal Bedouin family of nomadic desert shepherds in the region of Tripoli, Gaddafi was profoundly anti-colonialist. It is affirmed that his paternal grandfather died fighting against the Italian invaders when Libya was invaded by them in 1911.
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I don't want people to know what I'm actually like. It's not good for an actor.
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Truth is the best defense.
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God does arithmetic.
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Being a twin, and being my sister's twin, is such a defining part of my life that I wouldn't know how to be who I am, including a writer, without that being somehow at the centre.
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Education, housing and hospitals are the most important things for society.
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We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.
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I kept on trying to use so many media and ideas in my work because our horizon is so vast and Indian culture is so rich that I think what we are today, culturally, we have a unique position and I don't think one lifetime is enough to encompass it.
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All we talk about is 'Islamic terrorism.' If the two words are associated for long enough it's obviously going to have an effect on how people think about Muslims.
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I hope America can also be the cultural leader of the world, and use this frontier spirit to lead and show others that we need courage to go places where we have not gone before.
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Congress is my ideological home; I come from a Nehruvian family.
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If you are constantly making judgments based on superficial affiliations, your world gets to be pretty small.
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I can't imagine anything more worthwhile than doing what I most love. And they pay me for it.
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Beauty is a fragile gift.
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If you asked me if I wanted more joyful experiences in my life, I wouldn't be at all sure I did, exactly because it proves such a difficult emotion to manage.
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My mother tells me of when I was 10 or 11 and I'd wear really tight, short skirts and crop tops. All the local men would wolf whistle and stop and stare, but I didn't realise why at the time.
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As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes.
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The plays I choose to work on are about having masks. We all have masks in life, but there is a different inner life going on. The audience has to work hard to see what is going on. I love what is not on display.
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You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere.
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Although I behave in a quite reserved way in my personal life, give me a stage and I'll be as flamboyant as I can.
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CEOs make hard decisions; sometimes, the least worst is the right one.
